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Tonight at 20:05 Panathinaikos will host the match against AS Roma for the first leg of the first knock-out stage of UEFA Europa League in a packed full OAKA stadium in Athens. AS Roma are clear favorites to progress to the next stage but this doesn’t mean that Panathinaikos will not fight. The Greek team is currently leading the Greek championship despite their home defeat to their last game. The morale of the team is not at the highest level but most probably this will boost the efforts of the players on the pitch.

On the other hand, AS Roma is at exceptional form being 14 straight league games undefeated (which was back in the 28th of October for the away game against Udinese) and this list the team to the second spot of the Italian championship 7 points behind Inter and 2 point above AC Milan. The main target of the team which was a qualification ticket for next year’s Champions League is being achieved – so far – and therefore the team can focus on the current tournament of Europa League in order to go as further as possible.

Panathinaikos is not facing any major absents and a likely starting eleven squad should be Tzorvas, Sariegki, Kant, Spyropoulos, Vyntra, Simao, Katsouranis, Karagounis, Leto, Ninis and Cisse. On the other hand, Ranieri will not have the services of Francesco Totti who stayed in Italy with flu but other than that the Roma’s manager is not facing any injury problems. He is expected to use a 4-4-1-1 formation with Sergio, Bourntiso, Mexes, Cassetti, Riise, De Rossi, Pizarro, Peru, Tantei, Julio Baptista and Vucinic.

The online sports books favorite the away win of Roma – the sports betting odds for Roma is around to 2.35 – while the draw is up to 3.20 and the home win of Panathinaikos is also very high up to 2.90. However, once again we will go against the odds and we will choose to bet on the Draw. Yes, Roma is a better team than Panathinaikos but the Greek team will have around 55.000 fans on their side. So, a draw is the prediction for this match with less than 2.5 goals.

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